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Sapphire HD 6850 1GB Vapor-X Edition

Testing:

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 2.5 is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on the Unigine engine. This was the first DX 11 benchmark out to allow testing of DX 11 features. What sets the Heaven Benchmark apart is the addition of hardware tessellation, available in three modes — Moderate, Normal and Extreme. Although tessellation requires a video card with DirectX 11 support and Windows Vista/7, the Heaven Benchmark also supports DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.0. Visually, it features beautiful floating islands that contain a tiny village and extremely detailed architecture.

Settings

4x AA

16x AF

Shaders = High

Tesselation = Normal

Measurement = FPS

This is always one of my favorite benchmarks to watch because it's just so dang pretty! Anyways, the Sapphire HD6850 Vapor-X did something cool again here, where it outperformed an HD6870 twice. It's still only by 1 FPS, but it's still a statistic.